“Well, actually,” Rennie paused to carefully select one of the cubes of sugar—they had rounded corners and were, he thought, the color of the sand at Jetties Beach, where he had spent holidays as a boy—”I have been insanely busy.”
Why, Morris wondered, did he find Rennie so irritating: he was too tall, too [...]
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One•XXIV•3,4&5
Posted in Part One, Section 24, tagged dog, fiction, jealousy, petit fours on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Part One•XXIV•Paragraphs 1&2
Posted in Part One, Section 24, tagged birthday, marché, mignardises, resentment on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Punch roused himself from his post on the living room carpet, where he had been keeping vigil over the three pastel mignardises, and, with one last wistful glance at his little fondant charges, went to greet Morris, who, after fiddling with the key in the lock (hadn’t he just paid a small fortune [...]
